On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:46:49PM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:19:37 -0600, Paul Keusemann
<pkeusem(_at_)hotpop(_dot_)com> wrote:
I've got a pop account on HotPop.Com and like every other email account
known to man it's deluged with spam. Occaisionally (about once or twice
a week and getting more frequent) I get socket errors when my fetchmail
daemon tries to download mail from HotPop. There's always a spam message
at the top of the mail queue. If I delete the offending message,
fetchmail happily downloads the rest of them.
Socket errors are an indicator of a communications problem between
fetchmail and the remote server. Little you can do I'm afraid.
Or a bug in the mail server that happens with malformed emails.
I had to deal with two different bugs with microsoft server:
one with a spam that ends with an incomplete line (without cr/lf),
and other that caused the server to send an empty message, even
without any header.
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rodolfo
barrett(_at_)9hells(_dot_)org